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authorVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>2009-05-16 11:28:33 +0200
committerVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>2009-06-15 15:49:43 +0200
commit7a0aeb14e18ad59394bd9bbc6e57fb345819e748 (patch)
tree04c7229103e1009ad8886ed663e047abe58805fb /kernel
parent3b5c760efcddf1ebdd39a2035b554e96febd7466 (diff)
downloadlinux-7a0aeb14e18ad59394bd9bbc6e57fb345819e748.tar.bz2
signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning
This false positive is due to field padding in struct sigqueue. When this dynamically allocated structure is copied to the stack (in arch- specific delivery code), kmemcheck sees a read from the padding, which is, naturally, uninitialized. Hide the false positive using the __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag. Also made the rlimit override code a bit clearer by introducing a new variable. Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 809a228019ad..d81f4952eebb 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -832,6 +832,7 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
{
struct sigpending *pending;
struct sigqueue *q;
+ int override_rlimit;
trace_sched_signal_send(sig, t);
@@ -863,9 +864,13 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
make sure at least one signal gets delivered and don't
pass on the info struct. */
- q = __sigqueue_alloc(t, GFP_ATOMIC, (sig < SIGRTMIN &&
- (is_si_special(info) ||
- info->si_code >= 0)));
+ if (sig < SIGRTMIN)
+ override_rlimit = (is_si_special(info) || info->si_code >= 0);
+ else
+ override_rlimit = 0;
+
+ q = __sigqueue_alloc(t, GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE,
+ override_rlimit);
if (q) {
list_add_tail(&q->list, &pending->list);
switch ((unsigned long) info) {